Keith Calhoun And Chandra McCormick - Louisiana Medley

Three decades of African American life in and around New Orleans Louisiana Medley celebrates the 30-year collaboration of photographers Keith Calhoun (born 1955) and Chandra McCormick (born 1957). Partners in life and work, the two have worked together to document African American life in and around their native New Orleans. Calhoun and McCormicks photographs show the artists in tune with each other as well as the rich complexity of Louisiana identity, from the local street culture and parades of their city to life in the Louisiana State Penitentiary, locally known as Angola. Their intimate understanding of labor practices and prison culture has informed their activism, around Angola and outside its walls. The photographers activismand their appreciation for their citys stubborn, fragile beautyhas only grown since Hurricane Katrina. Louisiana Medley surveys Calhoun and McCormicks work over the course of three decades, revealing how the two photographers have used their cameras as tools for social engagement.